Thing is... they actually hold the road better than most assume.
Which is why you can get silly angles of lean to scare passengers with, and know you're going to make the corner as planned. :-D
The Renault 4 Gordini Turbo we built moons ago was bloody scary in the corners, but the thing wouldn't fall over.. not even with 130 bhp and standard R4 GTL wheels and tyres.
Excellent.
I managed to snap the front engine mount on my 6 by reversing at high speed and then ramming it in first and wheelspinning.
Looked quite impressive apparently (1), but the clutch wasn't too happy about it.
(1) To the other mechanically unsympathetic 17 year old scrotes who were watching it did, anyway.
No problems with the cornering just that going from a car with very little pitch and roll to a 2cv with its much higher pitch and roll felt really odd and took a bit to get used to. IIRC I drove a Renault 16 for a bit and that was similar but not as bad. I knew a woman in college and she said on occasions she used to take her 2cv through fields as a short cut and it did so very well, my dad said that was one of the things it was designed to do, crossing rough ground smoothly. With their leading and trailing link suspension giving wheel angles the same as body roll I wonder how well they would go with motorbike tyres fitted and pushed hard.
David Billington gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:
Hmmm. A set of 400mm rims from an oldie, with 16" bike tyres... Interesting. Mebbe an alternative to the BMW Mini 175/65s I was thinking of putting on the Mehari.
I'd have thought the bike tyres would square off quickly, though.
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